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Blue Moon,
oil, 36 x 36"
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Leading Edge,
oil, 24 x 24"
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East to West,
oil, 30 x 30"
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Burning Daylight,
oil, 30 x 30"UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / BONNER DAVID GALLERIES
3/15-4/8 Scottsdale, AZGAIL MORRISEarthly Elements
A
fter moving from her
Sausalito, California, studio
to one near Jack London Square
and the Port of Oakland, artist Gail
Morris was inspired to create a
series based on her new environ-
ment. The works she has continued
to create for her aptly titled Jack
London Series will be exhibited
at Bonner David Galleries from
March 15 through April 8.
“At first I missed the rolling
hills of Marin, but one day the
wide streets and old warehouses
and railroad tracks inspired me
to look at the city as landscape,”
she says, “so I started doing pastel
sketches on location and then
studio paintings based on my new
surroundings.”
For its 2018-19 show season, the
Scottsdale, Arizona, gallery has
asked its artists to create pieces
that pay homage to another artist.
Morris selected Wolf Kahn, who
she studied with in New York
City. He also inspired her “to go
from my California landscape
tonalism into more expressive and
exuberant landscape painting,” she
says. “Now I’ve taken it one step13